Art is the accomplice of love. Take love away and there is no longer art.

Life is a series of sensations connected to different states of consciousness

Money is the sign of liberty. To curse money is to curse liberty- to curse life, which is nothing, if it be not free.

We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

It is well-nigh obvious that those who are in favor of the death penalty have more affinities with murderers than those who oppose it.

Two elements are needed to form a truth - a fact and an abstraction

In order to understand life it is not only necessary not to be indifferent to men, but not to be indifferent to flocks, to trees. One should be indifferent to nothing.